In the week since the House v. NCAA settlement received final approval, the college sports world began making its preparations for a new era. Revenue-sharing is on the way, as are roster limits and the new NIL Go clearinghouse to vet NIL deals.

Much of the conversation has been around revenue sports such as basketball and football. However, there are still concerns about non-revenue and Olympic sports, and SEC commissioner Greg Sankey made it clear the plan is to avoid cutting sports under the new model.

Sankey said while he, too, has heard about athletics departments changing structure and making staff moves, the sense from his conversations is that schools are not looking to eliminate sports programs. But he noted the need for a consistent model and oversight. Otherwise, he warned that things could change.

“The second is at least in the Southeastern Conference — and we have to be aware that, as you have a $20 million outflow from a revenue sharing standpoint, that creates pressures,” Sankey said Friday on FanDuel Sports Network’s Golic and Golic. “And you’ve seen stories about that pressure resulting in some changes to personnel, or maybe the way expenditures are overseen in athletic departments. What has been the topic of focus in our room is not reducing the sport opportunities. That’s speculated about.

“What I will say is there has to be a point where this revenue-sharing model and the third-party oversight sticks and is consistent. And we have that opportunity now. If it continues to grow, I think that’s an enormous threat to those Olympic sports, or the non-revenue sports.”

Per the terms of the House v. NCAA settlement, schools have the ability to share up to $20.5 million with athletes if they opt in to revenue-sharing. Football is expected to receive 75%, followed by men’s basketball (15%), women’s basketball (5%) and the remainder of sports (5%). The amount shared in revenue will increase 4% annually.

The growing sense is that schools will be able to decide how to divide up their revenue-sharing after House settlement approval. Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark said that’s the case in his conference, and some schools in others have confirmed which sports will participate in revenue-sharing.

At Oklahoma, six programs will be part of the rev-share plan: football, men’s and women’s basketball, baseball, softball and women’s gymnastics. Ohio State also said its football and basketball programs would all participate, in addition to women’s volleyball. The hope is to expand to more sports down the road, athletics director Ross Bjork said.

There’s no denying that Chicago Sky forward Angel Reese has established herself as an elite rebounder early in her WNBA career. But some fans online have often trolled her, claiming that the numbers are inflated due to the number of second, or sometimes third, chances she gets off her own misses.

It’s gotten to the point where the term “mebounds” has been coined by some to describe it. Reese hasn’t been immune from seeing it when she logs online either, and responded to the criticism in a Tik Tok post.

“Whoever came up with the ‘mebounds’ thing, y’all ate that up,” she said. “Because rebounds, mebounds, keybounds, crebounds, tebounds — anything that comes off that board, it’s mine. And a brand? That’s six figures right there. The trolling, I love when y’all do it because the ideas be good.”

Reese’s comments about a brand suggest that she may attempt to try to trademark the term and make some merchandise off of it. She even responded to a post on X that claimed that’s what she intended to do, tagging her agent Jeanine Ogbonnaya.

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Former Tennessee softball player Taylor Pannell intends to transfer to Texas Tech for her redshirt sophomore season. The outfielder announced her plans to leave Knoxville earlier this offseason.

The Vols won 47 games last year while making a run to the Women’s College World Series. Despite the success, she’s opted for greener pastures.

Pannell played a huge role in Tennessee’s dream season. She hit a team-leading .399 with 16 home runs and 65 RBIs. She paced the lineup in runs scored, total bases, doubles, hits, and at-bats.

The Volunteers hoped the production would return in 2026. That won’t be the case. She’s headed to Lubbock.

Texas Tech backed the Brinks truck up to land Taylor Pannell’s commitment. It’s something the program’s quite familiar with doing.

Last year, they paid pitcher NiJaree Canady $1 million to join the roster after she left Stanford. It paid off with an appearance in the national championship series.

The Red Raiders finished one win shy of a national title. They’ll now continue to spend in hopes of bringing a trophy home next year.

While Pannell is eager to join her new team, her family is burning its bridge with her former school.

Taylor Pannell’s dad went rogue on social media.

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— National Champion Tony Vitellos Smile (@bigorangetony) June 15, 2025

Brandon Pannell posted a series of bizarre tweets aimed at Vol Nation. Most disrespected fans of the program, with some crossing the line of insensitivity.

In one particular response, he provided reasoning to his daughter’s move. NIL seems to have played a large role.

Yikes….NIL has gotten way out of hand pic.twitter.com/DYZZhwu1Gp

— Andy McBroom (@AndyJMacc) June 15, 2025

It’s been reported that the Red Raiders plan to spend $55 million on student-athletes between NIL and revenue sharing. Some of that small fortune is going into Taylor Pannell’s bank account.

Brandon Pannell flaunted that wealth this weekend. While Texas Tech will get a superstar on the diamond, they might also have a headache in Pannell’s dad.

Though overdue and underutilized, it appears athletic departments will finally include stability and consequences into name, image and likeness contracts with their players.

 A lengthy Q&A crafted and distributed by the NCAA covers several aspects of the post-House settlement world, and one section relevant to this conversation addresses multi-year contracts with players, buyouts and incentives.

For starters, the NCAA said that contracts covering “additional payments” do count against the “benefits cap,” which is the $20.5 million limit schools are now permitted to split up among those participating in NCAA sports on campus. If a school pays a player a share of revenue and/or NIL, which is also permissible now, the amount specified for a year in the contract is counted toward the cap that year. The amount specified for any subsequent year counts toward that year.

In short, the school has to report the benefit in the year the benefit is provided. That’s important to note if and when takes its NIL operation in-house. If NIL agreements are with WVU, the payments count toward the cap. If NIL agreements are made outside of WVU, those wouldn’t count toward WVU’s cap.  

The example the NCAA provides details a two-year agreement and includes a “signing incentive.” A player is promised $50,000 “upon enrollment” as well as $100,000 on Jan. 1 of the first year and then $100,00 on Jan. 1 of the second year. The school would have to count $150,000 for the first year, because the player received the signing incentive and the annual payment. The school would count the second $100,000 annual payment for the second year. 

However, the NCAA also acknowledges the obvious, which is that players will inevitably breach the contract and transfer to another school. The NCAA presented a scenario with a $100,000 payment split into $50,000 paid at the beginning of the academic year and the remaining $50,000 paid at the end of the academic year and, most importantly, a $100,000 buyout if the player transfers.

Supposing the player transfers before the end of the academic year, the school has made just one of the $50,000 payments and counts that toward the cap. The second payment never happened, so it doesn’t count. The new school that the player transfers to then pays the original school a $100,000 buyout, and that’s one benefit of bringing NIL in-house.

If a WVU player transfers to a new school and breaches the NIL contract with WVU’s in-house setup, the player’s new school would pay WVU the buyout. However, if that transferring player breaches an NIL contract with a third party NIL and not with WVU, the new school wouldn’t owe WVU anything and would only pay the third party the buyout if that was in the NIL contract.

In the NCAA’s scenario, the new school has to count the $100,000 buyout, as well as any other payment promised and made to the player that year, toward the cap. The new school “may not increase its benefits cap allowance by $100,000 as a result of this buyout payment.”

The NCAA is also allowing contract incentives and explained a scenario for a two-year contract with a payable bonus if a player has a 3.0 GPA after the fall semester. The player is to be paid $50,000 on Jan. 1 of the first year and Jan. 2 of the second year, and both payments would count toward the cap for the respective year. If the player earns the incentive, the $5,000 counts, and if the player falls short of the GPA “the payment will be removed from the benefits cap allowance for that year.”